Newtown house, Co Kilkenny
Landscape image of Newtown house, Co Kilkenny
Forgotten spaces, Newtown house, Co.KIlkenny
One of Kilkenny’s Forgotten spaces, Newtown House.
I cannot find that much history on this location, the following web link has records as follows:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~lawekk/HSESN.HTM
Newtown house
NEWTOWN HOUSE, Earlstown parish, Shillelogher barony.
1858 Joseph Greene, Newtown. [Will]
1870 John Newport Greene, Newtown House. [Will]
1873 Newtown House, 6 mile of Kilkenny, Thomastown & Ballyhale, 3 of Callan, 1 of Kells, to let by Lt Col Mollan CB. [Mod 6.9.1873]
1873 Mr Joseph Greene, Newtown House. [Mod 25.10.1873]
1878 Eliza Newport Greene, Newtown. [Will]
1912 Died, Major-General James Benjamin Dennis at Newtown House, Kilkenny, age 95. [St Canices Cathedral grave]
1969 Newtown House now dismantled and a ruins. [O’Kelly]
1993 Newtown, ruins, c1800. 1 mile W of Kells. 18.S.47.44. [KK Dev Plan]
Irish photography series, by kilkenny based photographer : Nigel Borrington
Nigel Borrington 
I have found (from my uncle’s Garda records) that he was recommended (reference I assume) by some called EJ Eccles, Newtown house Kilkenny. This reference was made in early 1934
June 6, 2012 at 3:47 pm
I believe that a family called Lanigan lived in this house in the 1920s.
2 of their sons went to school at my own old boarding school, St.Gerard’s in Bray before going on to Clongowes. The were Thomas & Frank Lanigan & their father died in 1926.
Any information you can give me about these 2 alumni from my old school would be very welcome. Regards & thanks. JBD
August 2, 2012 at 5:25 pm
I am William Greene’s great-great-grandson and he was born in Kilkenny House in 1807. He later moved to Antrim and served as the vicar for 39 years there before moving with 6 of his 10 children to Virginia. I would appreciate any information regarding Newtown House and would like to visit there in next next few years.
July 10, 2013 at 6:28 pm
Hello William
Thank you for your comments, it’s a long time since I posted about the old house and have almost forgotten that I did, so its wonderful to here from yourself.
Thank you for the info that’s very helpful, let me know what else you would like to know and I will do my best to help !
July 10, 2013 at 10:57 pm
Nigel,
Actually William was my great-great-grandfather. I’m Reggie. I visited my great-great-grandfather’s grave site in Staunton, Virginia with my son last month. I’m still trying to find his house there.
Sometime in the next few years my two sons and I would like to return to Ireland and visit Kilkenny and what’s left of Newtown House. We visited Antrim in 2011. I actually have pictures of the house from the late 1800s and pictures of all my relatives who lived there.
Reggie
August 1, 2013 at 11:01 pm
Joseph Greene was the father of Reginald Wellington Latimer Greene who moved to Stratford-on-Avon where he practised as a doctor. His daughter, Beryl Latimer Greene married John Moulton, a botanist and the youngest of their 3 children was the late Dr Alex Moulton (1920-2012) of The Hall, Bradford-on-Avon, the innovative engineer and creator of the Moulton range of small wheeled bicycles. Dr Moulton also invented the Hydrolastic and Hydragas suspension systems used on BMC / BL / Rover Group cars from 1959 to 2002.
October 5, 2014 at 11:49 am
Hello Guy 🙂
Thank you this is some very welcome and helpful Information – many thanks
October 6, 2014 at 12:08 pm
Hello Nigel,
it´s a fantastic foto, I like it! I have found the house in the book “Abandoned Mansions of Ireland” and I would like to visit it in August. Can you tell me, where it´s locatetd?
Greetings from Germany
Diana
April 21, 2015 at 8:08 pm
Hello Diana 🙂
Thank you I am very pleased that you enjoyed the post , I will put a link here for the bing maps location , I think that’s the best thing for me to do anyway 🙂
http://binged.it/1bHuS2f
Zoomed in a little more
http://binged.it/1bHv0yL
You can get directions using this link ……..
April 30, 2015 at 11:14 pm